Anthony Joshua: record, next fight and profile →
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has embraced the scenario of having Anthony Joshua fight for the WBC heavyweight title. The current WBC champion, Tyson Fury, will first have to face Deontay Wilder in a trilogy fight, on the tentative date of December 19.
On Wednesday, unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua explained that he's confident in his ability to stop WBC champion Tyson Fury inside the distance. And Joshua believes the end would come in the first half of the fight.
ONCE AGAIN THE sport of boxing threw up a tale of the unexpected – for many – at the weekend and yet another reminder of the danger of taking your eye off the ball in this game of hard knocks. Very much like when Anthony Joshua kept talking the talk about Deontay Wilder ahead of what was supposed to be a walkover against Andy Ruiz and then came unstuck, Dillian Whyte spent far too much time keeping Tyson Fury at the forefront of conversations when his focus should have been solely on Alexander Povetkin.
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua believes that he's capable of stopping WBC champion Tyson Fury in the first six rounds. Joshua and Fury are almost in line to fight each other in 2021. The two champions have already agreed on a 50-50 deal when it comes to the financial terms.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says top contender Dillian Whyte is getting repaid in kind for his countless verbal barbs against other boxers. This past Saturday night at Matchroom's Fight Camp in Brentwood, Whyte was knocked out cold, in the fifth round, by 40-year-old veteran Alexander Povetkin.
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says the superstar boxer will not have an worries of a mandatory defense for at least a year - once the mandatory challenger in established. The mandatory had been Dillian Whyte, and he was due a title crack by February 2021.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says the British superstar is dead set on fighting in 2020. Joshua has been out of the ring since December of 2019, when he won back his world titles with a twelve round unanimous decision over Andy Ruiz in Saudi Arabia.
Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch is hoping the mega-fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will get made. A major roadblock was removed, when Alexander Povetkin brutally knocked out Dillian Whyte on Saturday night at Matchroom's Fight Camp in Brentwood.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes Dillian Whyte spent too much time looking ahead and not enough time concentrating on Alexander Povetkin.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is now without any mandatory obligations, after Alexander Povetkin knocked out Dillian Whyte on Saturday night at Matchroom's Fight Camp. Whyte, who held the mandatory position, was well ahead in the fight when a single uppercut knocked him out cold in the fifth round.